Table 1
Baseline clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with gastric cancer

Characteristics All cases (n=143)
Clinical characteristics Mean age (yr) 60.7±12.9 (27–84)
Sex
Male 91 (63.6)
Female 52 (36.4)
Tumor location
Antrum 74 (51.7)
Corpus 69 (48.3)
Median overall survival (mo) 45 (0–155)
Died patient 66 (46.2)
Cause of death
Gastric cancer 47 (32.9)
Hepatocellular carcinoma 5 (3.5)
Liver cirrhosis 2 (1.4)
Cardiologic disease 2 (1.4)
End stage renal disease 1 (0.7)
Pneumonia 1 (0.7)
Another cancer 1 (0.7)
Could not identify cause 7 (4.9)
Purpose of operation
Curative 117 (81.8)
Palliative 26 (18.2)
Recurrent patient 21 (14.7)
CEA (n=130)
≤5 115 (88.5)
>5 15 (11.5)
CA19-9 (n=124)
≤27 104 (83.9)
>27 20 (16.1)
Pathologic characteristics Early gastric cancer 58 (40.6)
Advanced gastric cancer 85 (59.4)
WHO classification
Tubular adenocarcinoma 90 (62.9)
Well differentiated 18 (12.6)
Moderate differentiated 34 (23.8)
Poorly differentiated 38 (26.6)
Papillary adenocarcinoma 1 (0.7)
Mucinous adenocarcinoma 9 (6.3)
Signet ring cell carcinoma 43 (30.1)
Lauren classification
Intestinal 68 (47.6)
Diffuse & mixed 75 (52.4)
Vascular invasion (n=140)
No 108 (77.1)
Yes 32 (22.9)
Lymphatic invasion
No 80 (55.9)
Yes 63 (44.1)
Perineural invasion (n=140)
No 99 (70.7)
Yes 41 (29.3)
T stage
Tis, T1 55 (38.5)
T2, T3, T4 88 (61.5)
N stage
N0 66 (46.2)
N1, N2, N3 77 (53.8)
M stage
M0 131 (91.6)
M1 12 (8.4)
Values are presented as mean±SD (range) or number (%).
WHO, World Health Organization.